How to conditionally include a config file?

[johnnyutahh]

How to conditionally include a config file? Is it feasible?

eg, in ~/.config/helix/config.toml (on Linux or macOS):

if [systemA] then source configA.toml
if [systemB] then source configB.toml

[kirawi]

You can pass hx -c <config file> if that's what you're looking for.

[johnnyutahh]

You can pass hx -c <config file> if that's what you're looking for.

That's nice to know, thank you, but it does not solve my problem.

Rather, like vim, I want to put content in the config file(s) (~/.config/helix/config.toml... and/or any other config files) to enable conditional loading of other config files.

I want to enable similar functionality to vim. Here's an example .vimrc snippet that checks has("gui_macvim") to see if it should include (source) another config file (in reality, this is bad vim/macvim/vim-gui configuration stuff; it's simply an example to show the if-plus-source feature/functionality of vim that I'd like to incorporate into hx):

if has("gui_macvim")
  source '~/.config/vim/a_macvim_config_file'
endif

I'd also like to be able to check conditions like shell-environment variables to determine which config files to include/source/load. Like this (imagine this as hx config.toml pseudo code):

if shellenv_exists('HX_MIMIC_VIM')
{
    source 'helix_config_mimic_vim.toml'
}

[pascalkuthe]

This won't be possible with the toml config. Once we have a plugin system something like.that will.be possible until then you will habe to use tricks like symlinking a different config file or per project configuration (.helix/config.toml in workspace root)

[johnnyutahh]

Got it, thanks much.